The Maiden (film)
| The Maiden | |
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| Directed by | Graham Foy |
| Written by | Graham Foy |
| Produced by | Daiva Žalnieriunas Dan Montgomery |
| Starring | Jackson Sluiter Marcel T Jiménez Hayley Ness |
| Cinematography | Kelly Jeffrey |
| Edited by | Brendan Mills |
Production companies | F F Films MDFF |
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Running time | 117 minutes |
| Country | Canada |
| Language | English |
The Maiden is a 2022 Canadian drama film, written and directed by Graham Foy. The film stars Marcel T. Jiménez as Colton, a teenager coping with his grief after the death of his friend Kyle (Jackson Sluiter) in an accident, and Hayley Ness as Whitney, a classmate of theirs whose journal Colton finds in the ravine where Kyle died.
The film was included in the Next Step incubator program for emerging filmmakers at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival, and in the First Cut+ program at the 2022 Karlovy Vary Film Festival. At Karlovy Vary, it won the €5,000 First Cut+ TRT Award.
It had its world premiere in the Giornate degli Autori program at the 2022 Venice International Film Festival, on September 1, 2022, and its North American premiere in the Contemporary World Cinema lineup at the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival. The film was later shown at the Pittsburgh Contemporary Film Fest in April of 2025.